distort
dis tawrt
- v make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- v form into a spiral shape
- v twist and press out of shape
- v affect as in thought or feeling
- v alter the shape of (something) by stress
- For the past several years, Greenwald has conducted a persistent, malicious campaign to distort who I am and where I stand.
- There is still an effort to distort her goal of giving women control over their bodies by attributing such quotes to Sanger as "More children from the fit, less from the unfit .
- The energy industry and its apologists continue to distort his findings, and the current White House continues to try to silence him.